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Nicolas Tredell

Nicolas Tredell’s most recent books are Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Novels to Some Purpose and a new edition of Conversations with Critics containing interviews originally published in PNR.He formerly taught at Sussex University and now gives lectures, in person and online, across the globe.



Nicolas Tredell's work featured in PN Review comprises 15 reports, 33 articles, 21 interviews, and 93 reviews, over a period of 43 years.
Further Reading
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 21 (1981) on Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook (Vol. 2)
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 21 (1981) on Richard Kostelanetz
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 23 (1982) on David Jones at the Tate
Review in PN Review 24 (1982) on F. R. Leavis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 24 (1982) on Donald Wesling
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 24 (1982) on J. Mazzaro and C. Molesworth
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 26 (1982) on Christopher Butler's 'After the Wake'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 26 (1982) on G. S. Fraser
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 28 (1982) on Walt Whitman and Theodore Roethke
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 28 (1982) on Derek Walcott
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 29 (1983) African Epics
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 29 (1983) The Olson-Creeley Letters
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 29 (1983) Bernard Sharratt's 'Reading and Voilence'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 30 (1983) on 'Inviolable Voice' by Stan Smith
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 30 (1983) on 'The Great Code' by Northrop Frye
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 30 (1983) Hegemony by Other Means
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 31 (1983) Literary Magazines from the United States
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 31 (1983) Benjamin Lease's 'Anglo-American Encounters'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 31 (1983) Clark Hulse's 'Metamorphic Verse'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 31 (1983) Allan Rodway's 'Craft of Criticism'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 31 (1983) Walter Ong's 'Orality and Literacy'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on Theo Hermans and Sydney Levy
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 32 (1983) Never Trust the Critic
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 33 (1983) on Tzvetan Todorov
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 33 (1983) Anti-Philosophers
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on Michael Hamburger and André Brink
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 37 (1984) Reading Magazine
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 37 (1984) The Politicization of English
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 38 (1984) on W.E. Henley amd W.H. Davies special issues
Report in PN Review 40 (1984) Reading Magazines
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 40 (1984) Rotton Reconstruction
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 41 (1985) Post-Theory
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 41 (1985) Edward Said as Critic
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on A.D. Nuttall's A New Mimesis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 43 (1985) on Simon de Beauvoir
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 44 (1985) on Christopher Norris's Deconstructive Turn
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 44 (1985) on Recollections & Impressions of the Leavises
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 47 (1986) Sartre-Barthes
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 47 (1986) on 'The Function of Criticism'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 48 (1986) Annotated Bibliography
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 49 (1986) Self, Society and Art
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 51 (1986) on 'Metafiction'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 52 (1986) on Sartre's Freud Scenario
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 53 (1987) Critic of Crisis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on The Order
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Eva Figes
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 57 (1987) See B. S. Johnson Decently
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 58 (1987) See B. S. Johnson Decently: Part II
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 58 (1987) on biblical interpretation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 58 (1987) on Theories of Discourse
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 59 (1988) Writers at PEN: Lessing and Oz
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 60 (1988) on John Sturrock
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 64 (1988) on Patrick Parrinder
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Sartre and de Beauvoir
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 67 (1989) Uncancelled Challenge: Raymond Williams II
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 69 (1989) Uncancelled Challenge: Raymond Williams III
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 71 (1990) Uncancelled Challenge: Raymond Williams IV
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Michael Edwards
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 74 (1990) in Conversation with Frank Kermode
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 75 (1990) Christine Brooke-Rose In Conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 75 (1990) on American Journals
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 76 (1990) Karl Miller In Conversation
Interview in PN Review 77 (1991) A.S. Byatt in conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 77 (1991) Magazine Montage
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 78 (1991) on Robert Scholes and Paul B. Armstrong
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 78 (1991) George Steiner in conversation
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 79 (1991) Northrop Frye
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 79 (1991) Bernard Bergonzi in Conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Frederic Jameson and Robert Hewison
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 80 (1991) in conversation with Terry Eagleton
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 81 (1991) Roger Scruton in Conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Christine Brooke- Rose and J. Hillis Miller
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 82 (1991) Robert Hewison in Conversation
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 83 (1992) Stephen Heath in Conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Elizabeth A. Marsland and Adrian Caesar
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 84 (1992) Brian Cox in Conversation
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 85 (1992) Catherine Belsey in Conversation
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 86 (1992) Greene's Afterlife
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 86 (1992) Marina Warner in Conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 87 (1992) on Perry Anderson
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 88 (1992) in Conversation with Donald Davie
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 89 (1993) in Conversation with John Barrell
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Brian Cox's The Great Betrayal
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Robert Crawford
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 92 (1993) in Conversation with Colin MacCabe
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 93 (1993) New World Maps
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 93 (1993) in Conversation with Richard Hoggart
Interview in PN Review 96 (1994) in Conversation with Lisa Jardine
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 102 (1995) Intimations of Utopia
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 104 (1995) Death of a Critic: on Harold Bloom
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 106 (1995) At the Harvard Club
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 111 (1996) on Literary Voice
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 112 (1996) Loyalties and Entitlements
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 116 (1997) on Leavis
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 119 (1998) In Conversation with Philip Hobsbaum
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 119 (1998) George Steiner: The Clamour of Babel
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 120 (1998) on Suzanne Guerlac and Gérard Genette
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 121 (1998) Sir Isaiah Berlin
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 123 (1998) Jean-François Lyotard
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 123 (1998) Boris Ford
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 124 (1998) on Frank Cioffi
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 126 (1999) on Nicholas Boyle
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 128 (1999) Brian Cox at Seventy: a conversation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 130 (1999) on Perry Anderson and Frederic Jameson
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 134 (2000) on J. Hillis Miller and Manuel Asensi
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 138 (2001) Feast at the Spectres
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 140 (2001) on Felicity Rosslyn
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 145 (2002) on Anthony Easthope
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 146 (2002) Panoramic Sleights
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 146 (2002) on de Bolla's Art Matters
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 148 (2002) on Christine Brooke-Rose
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 150 (2003) on Maeve Brennan's Larkin
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 150 (2003) on Peter Abbs
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 152 (2003) on Peter McDonald's Serious Poetry
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 153 (2003) Speaking Shards: Randall Jarrell
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 154 (2003) on books about Ford Madox Ford
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 156 (2004) on George Steiner
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 162 (2005) Raymond Tallis in Conversation
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 174 (2007) Paths through the Labyrinth
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 181 (2008) on John Osborne's Larkin
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 182 (2008) on The Modern Element
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 195 (2010) on Stephen Medcalf
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 218 (2014) A Search for Order
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 221 (2015) The Double Man: Karl Miller
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 223 (2015) on Wendy Pollard’s Pamela Hansford Johnson
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 226 (2015) on Derek Attridge
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 229 (2016) on Harold Bloom
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 230 (2016) on Gregory Woods
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 230 (2016) on Larkin’s photographs
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 231 (2016) Jonathan Culler
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 232 (2016) on Nikki Skillman
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 232 (2016) on Sean Ashton
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 234 (2017) on Terence Cave’s Thinking with Literature
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 235 (2017) Todorov Our Contemporary
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 236 (2017) A Plurality of Belongings: Tzvetan Todorov
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 258 (2021) System and Agon
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 262 (2021) on Beauvoir & Derrida
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 263 (2022) Pearl of Great Price
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 267 (2022) on How Computers Have Become Creative Writers
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 269 (2023) Vital Tradition
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